Hawaiʻi State
Public Library System

• October 22, 2025 @ 10:00 am - 10:45 am
• Categories: Books, Community, Entertainment, Learning, Music, Storytime (for kids)
• Contact: 808-889-6655

Join us every Wednesday at 10:00am for a fun-filled storytime! We’ll sing songs, read a few simple stories, then make a craft or do an activity. Great fun for 2 – 5 year-olds and their parents or caregivers. 

Anyone who requires an auxiliary aid or service for effective communication or a modification of policies or procedures to participate in a program, service, or activity should contact library staff as soon as possible. Advance requests 48 hours or more before the event are encouraged, but not required. All programs are subject to change.

• October 22, 2025 @ 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
• Categories: Arts & Crafts, Entertainment, Games, Learning
• Contact: 808-889-6655

• October 27, 2025 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
• Categories: Community, Entertainment, Games, Learning
• Contact: 808-889-6655

Calling teens and adults! Come for a fun night of board games, featuring the cooperative strategy game “Betrayal at The House on The Hill.”

“HAUNTED HOUSE TRAITOR GAME: Players must work together to survive the nightmare…but beware . The house turns one player against the others in this cooperative strategy game”

Other games will also be available to play. Also, feel free to bring your own to share!

Intended for ages 12 and up.
All materials will be provided.

Anyone who requires an auxiliary aid or service for effective communication or a modification of policies or procedures to participate in a program, service, or activity should contact library staff as soon as possible. Advance requests 48 hours or more before the event are encouraged, but not required. All programs are subject to change.

• October 29, 2025 @ 10:00 am - 10:45 am
• Categories: Books, Community, Entertainment, Learning, Music, Storytime (for kids)
• Contact: 808-889-6655

Join us every Wednesday at 10:00am for a fun-filled storytime! We’ll sing songs, read a few simple stories, then make a craft or do an activity. Great fun for 2 – 5 year-olds and their parents or caregivers. 

Anyone who requires an auxiliary aid or service for effective communication or a modification of policies or procedures to participate in a program, service, or activity should contact library staff as soon as possible. Advance requests 48 hours or more before the event are encouraged, but not required. All programs are subject to change.

• October 29, 2025 @ 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
• Categories: Arts & Crafts, Entertainment, Games, Learning
• Contact: 808-889-6655

• October 30, 2025 @ 2:30 pm - 4:30 pm
• Categories: Books, Branch book clubs, Community, Entertainment, Learning
• Contact: 808-889-6655

This month’s selection is The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling.

Read the book and come watch the movie. Short discussion will follow.
Snacks provided!

The book is available to pick up at the library.

Program is for ages 7-12

Anyone who requires an auxiliary aid or service for effective communication or a modification of policies or procedures to participate in a program, service, or activity should contact library staff as soon as possible. Advance requests 48 hours or more before the event are encouraged, but not required. All programs are subject to change.

• October 31, 2025 @ 2:30 pm - 4:30 pm
• Categories: Books, Branch book clubs, Community, Entertainment, Learning
• Contact: 808-889-6655

This month’s selection is Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs.

Read the book and come watch the movie. Short discussion will follow.
Snacks provided!

The book is available to pick up at the library.

Program is for ages 13-18

Anyone who requires an auxiliary aid or service for effective communication or a modification of policies or procedures to participate in a program, service, or activity should contact library staff as soon as possible. Advance requests 48 hours or more before the event are encouraged, but not required. All programs are subject to change.

• November 3, 2025 @ 3:15 pm - 4:30 pm
• Categories: Community, Culture, Entertainment, Learning
• Contact: 808-889-6655

All participants will walk away with useful and highly effective tips on using food-as-therapy, acupressure, and other lifestyle tools as well as info on acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine. This month’s topic is focused on Cold and Flu Prevention and treatment. 

Ila Jhaveri is a licensed acupuncturist and Chinese medicine herbalist who has been practicing for 29 years on Oahu and the Big Island.

Anyone who requires an auxiliary aid or service for effective communication or a modification of policies or procedures to participate in a program, service, or activity should contact library staff as soon as possible. Advance requests 48 hours or more before the event are encouraged, but not required. All programs are subject to change.

• November 3, 2025 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
• Categories: Community, Entertainment, Games, Learning
• Contact: 808-889-6655

Strategy! Mental exercise! Chess Club! Join us and learn to play or brush up on your skills. Both beginners and veteran players are welcome to challenge others in this classic game of strategy. Chess club meets on the first Monday evening of each month or the following Monday, in the event of a holiday. Children must be accompanied by an adult.

Anyone who requires an auxiliary aid or service for effective communication or a modification of policies or procedures to participate in a program, service, or activity should contact library staff as soon as possible. Advance requests 48 hours or more before the event are encouraged, but not required. All programs are subject to change.

• November 4, 2025 @ 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
• Categories: Books, Branch book clubs, Community, Entertainment, Learning
• Contact: 808-889-6655

Join the discussion of Orbital by Samantha Harvey.

Excerpt from Goodreads.com:”A slender novel of epic power and the winner of the Booker Prize 2024, Orbital deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men traveling through space. Selected for one of the last space station missions of its kind before the program is dismantled, these astronauts and cosmonauts—from America, Russia, Italy, Britain, and Japan—have left their lives behind to travel at a speed of over seventeen thousand miles an hour as the earth reels below. We glimpse moments of their earthly lives through brief communications with family, their photos and talismans; we watch them whip up dehydrated meals, float in gravity-free sleep, and exercise in regimented routines to prevent atrophying muscles; we witness them form bonds that will stand between them and utter solitude. Most of all, we are with them as they behold and record their silent blue planet. Their experiences of sixteen sunrises and sunsets and the bright, blinking constellations of the galaxy are at once breathtakingly awesome and surprisingly intimate.

Profound and contemplative, Orbital is a moving elegy to our environment and planet.”

Anyone who requires an auxiliary aid or service for effective communication or a modification of policies or procedures to participate in a program, service, or activity should contact library staff as soon as possible. Advance requests 48 hours or more before the event are encouraged, but not required. All programs are subject to change.